Shoemoney and Chow Bash

Internet Business March 12th, 2008 Say Something (0)

This thread says it all.

Shoemoney and Chow knows all, or do they?

I sure don’t claim to know a thing about making money online but I sure don’t pretend to either.

Goal $100 a day

Actual $0 

Achieving High Performance - Part 2

Personal March 9th, 2008 Say Something (0)

People have jobs and go through them daily hating it the whole way. Of course, this does not ring true for everyone. The mindset in most workplaces is, to get to the top and move the job to the next level. Most “driven” people approach life like the Indy 500, speeding along- all without realizing that they have been going around in circles in someone else’s race.

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100,000 Mile Check-Up - Part 1 - The Breakdown

Personal March 7th, 2008 Say Something (0)

Cars nowadays are designed to last longer, perform better, require less service but they still need some routine checks to maintain that performance. Similiarly, we as humans, get knocked out of alignment by the routine road hazards of every day life. Without realizing the effects, we speed all the time on some low octane fuel, tires not inflated properly, resting our foot on the brake pedal and falling asleep at the wheel. Like cars, we too need to do periodic maintenance so we don’t deteriate the one most important asset we have - ourselves.
I was a mechanic for three years; working on brakes, front end, alignments, and suspension. Before that I was a electrician/mechanic for the U2 aircraft in the USAF. I know this stuff, I am good at it… but what is my passion? What would I enjoy waking up for every morning? I love art and fixing things. How can I make money with that?

There is my problem. What can I do?

I am doing some soul searching. I do this daily and sometimes come up with some crazy wack thoughts that have no meaning. I want to help people. I want to give people a chance to make money online and not charge a butt load for the information. But I really just want to do what I want to do. So what is that? I will get back to you with that one… Actually started building my first website that I have been thinking about forever now but never had that push. Until I met Leo De Leon. I met him through Simon Leung at wimme, but met him through Johnnie Sui. (thanks to him, I am where I am today, no joke) Leo has been guiding and providing me with just about everything I would need to build this site. My dream if you will. That is my main focus right now. He has also brought me onboard his team to help with one of his many projects doing keyword research. I will be posting about that once that has started. I am hoping that the experience will be a huge turning point for me.

 Back to my whinning….

To be honest I really don’t have a passion for writing about the “make money online” niche when I actually, barely bring in about $100 a month… and it is very sporatic. I decided months ago, after I found out of my mom having breast cancer, that I was sick of going no where with this online thing. Life is short. I wanted to go back to doing what I love doing, which is art. Another hobbie of mine is working on cars and installing car audio. Wierd, I know, for a girl. Whatever though, I think I am good at it. I am sure that if I wanted to make something of myself in the IM world I would have by now, with all those seminars I went to this past year and all the people that I have met. Not that it was a bad thing, it was the best thing in the world that could have happened to me. I met the most helpful and generous people. Don’t get me wrong, I still am sticking around in this niche and going to work hard to try and make it. I guess I am being lazy and just waiting for someone to just throw it in my lap. Of course, I know, it does not work that way. You got to work hard to make this crap work. What I need to do is flush all the crap I learned previously and start from scratch. I won’t make excuses for being a loser with stuff. I am just going to start over and with a clean slate. I am going to give this blog a new look, matching my personality. This blog will be about my trials and tribulations online, in accordance with my sarcasim to spice it up! I am all about keepin’ it real and I am a no nonsense type; very blunt. I don’t care. This blog needs some attention and I need to not treat it like a chore. This whole blog was based off of all the things I learned while going to seminars and reading every ebook I can find. If you learned something from it, then cool. If not, then leave.
Ok I am done. It is almost time for me to get off work. My goal is to quit this place, replace my income building an internet business and be free.

A Better Life = Time Management

Personal March 4th, 2008 Say Something (3)

I am guilty of having poor time management skills… it has got to the point that I do write down my “things to do” list but I never get to cross them out. I suck at it basically. There are too many things that I want to do but never get around to doing them when it comes to my online endevors.  

Time management is basically about being focused. The Pareto Principle also known as the ‘80:20 Rule’ states that 80% of efforts that are not time managed or unfocused generates only 20% of the desired output. However,  80% of the desired output can be generated using only 20% of a well time managed effort. Although  the ratio ‘80:20′ is only arbitrary, it is used to put emphasis on how much is lost or how much can be gained with time management.

Some people view time management as a list of rules that involves scheduling of appointments, goal settings, thorough planning, creating things to do lists and prioritizing. These are the core basics of time management that should be understood to develop an efficient personal time management skill. These basic skills can be fine tuned further to include the finer points of each skill that can give you that extra reserve to make the results you desire.

But there is more skills involved in time management than the core basics. Skills such as decision making, inherent abilities such as emotional intelligence and critical thinking are also essential to your personal growth.

Personal time management involves everything you do. No matter how big and no matter how small, everything counts. Each new knowledge you acquire, each new advice you consider, each new skill you develop should be taken into consideration.

Having a balanced life-style should be the key result in having personal time management. This is the main aspect that many practitioners of personal time management fail to grasp.

Time management is about getting results, not about being busy.

The six areas that personal time management seeks to improve in anyone’s life are physical, intellectual, social, career, emotional and spiritual.

• The physical aspect involves having a healthy body, less stress and fatigue.
• The intellectual aspect involves learning and other mental growth activities.
• The social aspect involves developing personal or intimate relations and being an active contributor to society.
• The career aspect involves school and work.
• The emotional aspect involves appropriate feelings and desires and manifesting them.
• The spiritual aspect involves a personal quest for meaning.

Thoroughly planning and having a set of things to do list for each of the key areas may not be very practical, but determining which area in your life is not being giving enough attention is part of time management. Each area creates the whole you, if you are ignoring one area then you are ignoring an important part of yourself.

Personal time management should not be so daunting a task. It is a very sensible and reasonable approach in solving problems big or small. A great way of learning time management and improving your personal life is to follow several basic activities.

One of them is to review your goals whether it be immediate or long-term goals often. A way to do this is to keep a list that is always accessible to you.

Always determine which task is necessary or not necessary in achieving your goals and which activities are helping you maintain a balanced life style. 

Each and everyone of us has a peek time and a time when we slow down, these are our natural cycles. We should be able to tell when to do the difficult tasks when we are the sharpest. I know when I am not focused because I am too tired or just too bored. I need to be motivated and have no distractions.

Learning to say “No”. You actually see this advice often. Heed it even if it involves saying the word to family or friends. Especially friends who at your house chillin and are always saying, “why are you always on the computer?” “your not even doing anything?!” I get that a lot and it is very hard to just go hang out knowing that I have tasks that need to be taken care of and crossed out.

Don’t procrastinate. Attend to necessary things immediately. I say that but I dont always do it!

Have a positive attitude and set yourself up for success. But be realistic in your approach in achieving your goals.

Have a record or journal of all your activities. This will help you get things in their proper perspective.

These are the few steps you initially take in becoming a well rounded individual. As the say personal time management is the art and science of building a better life. From the moment you integrate into your life time management skills, you have opened several options that can provide a broad spectrum of solutions to your personal growth. It also creates more doors for opportunities to knock on.